'Le Torsk' [juvenile Atlantic cod?] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm 26th May 1968

26th May 1968

holding horse whips

This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations

which is Cockney rhyming slang for 'Flying Squad'

'Le Torsk' [juvenile Atlantic cod?] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm 26th May 1968Marine zoological study showing a side view of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), possibly a juvenile, with a plan view of the head of the fish. The title of the print normally refers a different fish, the Tusk or Cusk (Brosme brosme), but the print clearly represents a cod. Plate 4 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic: Rer: